How many people have Covid in your area as another 50 cases are recorded
A TOTAL of 50 people in northern Lincolnshire have tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. In North East Lincolnshire, another 26 people have received a positive result, a 19 per cent drop on the previous week.
It puts the region’s rate per 100,000 resident population at 114.1.
This compares to North Lincolnshire where just 24 people tested positive, according to figures published on March 7. This puts the region’s rolling rate at 99, after case numbers dropped by 14.4 per cent on the previous seven days.
The estimated R number for the healthcare region for North East and Yorkshire is at 0.7 to 1 with a daily infection growth rate range of -5 per cent to -2 per cent, as of March 5.
There have been no new coronavirus-related deaths for the second day in a row at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust.
The total number of Covid deaths in the region’s hospitals remains at 430.
It comes as another 5,117 people in the UK have tested positive for coronavirus. It puts the national rolling rate at 69 cases per 100,000 people.
A massive 22,213,112 people in the UK have now received their first Covid vaccine, and another 1,122,402 have had their second.
The cases are for the seven days up to March 2:
■Barnetby, Ulceby & Killingholme: 3 cases, 42.3 rolling rate ■Barton upon Humber: 12 cases, 102.8 rolling rate
■Brigg & South Ferriby: Suppressed (less than three cases) ■Broughton & Appleby: 7 cases, 106.2 rolling rate
■Burton upon Stather, Alkborough & Gunness: 10 cases, 115.5 rolling rate
■Caistor, Kelsey and Keelby: 4 cases, 41 rolling rate ■Cleethorpes and Haverstoe: 3 cases, 53.6 rolling rate ■Cleethorpes Beacon Hill: 7 cases, 120.1 rolling rate ■Cleethorpes North: 4 cases, 79.3 rolling rate ■Cleethorpes West: 4 cases, 72.2 rolling rate
■Crowle & Keadby: 3 cases, 35.7 rolling rate
■Epworth & Bracon: 6 cases, 78.1 rolling rate
■Goxhill, Barrow & New Holland: 3 cases, 47.6 rolling rate ■Holme Hill: 10 cases, 166.8 rolling rate ■Holton-le-Clay, Binbrook, and Tetney: Suppressed (less than three cases) ■Humberston: 6 cases, 83.1 rolling rate
■Great Coates & Willows: 3 cases, 51.7 rolling rate
■Grimsby West Marsh: 15 cases, 195.1 rolling rate
■Grimsby East Marsh & Port: 3 cases, 54.4 rolling rate ■Immingham and Habrough: 8 cases, 76.3 rolling rate ■Kirton in Lindsey & Hibaldstow: 20 cases, 283.4 rolling rate ■Laceby Acres and Wybers Wood: 6 cases, 85.9 rolling rate ■Laceby, Healing, and Stallingborough: 5 cases, 63.3 rolling rate
■Littlefield North: 7 cases, 121.8 rolling rate
■Littlefield South & Grange: 7 cases, 126.3 rolling rate ■Market Rasen & Brookenby: Suppressed (less than three cases) ■Messingham & Scawby: 4 cases, 69.9 rolling rate
■New Clee: 3 cases, 49.5 rolling rate
■New Waltham: 16 cases, 187.2 rolling rate ■Nunsthorpe: 7 cases, 96.8 rolling rate
■Scartho: 5 cases, 51.2 rolling rate
■Scunthorpe Ashby: Suppressed (less than three cases) ■Scunthorpe Berkeley: 9 cases, 139.1 rolling rate
■Scunthorpe Bottesford: 12 cases, 132.6 rolling rate ■Scunthorpe Central & Crosby: 6 cases, 62.4 rolling rate ■Scunthorpe Central Park: 4 cases, 67.4 rolling rate ■Scunthorpe Frodingham: 6 cases, 95.5 rolling rate ■Scunthorpe Lakeside: 6 cases, 68 rolling rate ■Scunthorpe Lincoln Gardens: 6 cases, 89.5 rolling rate ■Scunthorpe North: 16 cases, 202.6 rolling rate ■Scunthorpe Westcliff: 5 cases, 82.8 rolling rate ■Scunthorpe Yaddlethorpe: 3 cases, 45.4 rolling rate ■Sidney Park: Suppressed (less than three cases) ■Waltham and East Ravendale: 4 cases, 51 rolling rate ■Wellow: 14 cases, 155.4 rolling rate
■Weelsby and Old Clee: 15 cases, 209.7 rolling rate ■Winterton & Winteringham: 5 cases, 77.2 rolling rate ■Yarborough: 13 cases, 235.8 rolling rate
BORIS JOHNSON said he is “very hopeful” the return of pupils will go to plan as he warned the risk of keeping classrooms locked outweighed a school-led spike in Covid cases.
Pupils in England are set to return to school for the first time in two months today as part of the first stage of lockdown easing.
Some scientists have raised concerns the increased levels of interaction could push the reproduction number – the R value – above 1, causing Covid to spread faster. The Prime Minister echoed the warnings of education experts that more damage was being done to pupils by keeping them at home than having them return to in-person lessons. He said: “You ask about the risk (of schools returning) – I think the risk is actually in not going back to school tomorrow given all the suffering, all the loss of learning we have seen.”
It comes after Amanda Spielman, England’s chief schools inspector, expressed concern about eating disorders and selfharming among children after she said pupils endured “boredom, loneliness, misery and anxiety” during the school shut
down since January. In her final address as children’s commissioner for England last month, Anne Longfield said it was “impossible to overstate how damaging the past year has been for many children”. Some pupils have not been in lessons since late December, while others briefly returned before the third lockdown came into force early in the new year.
Mr Johnson said he believed pupils, parents and teachers were “ready” to go back, with more than 20,000 schools set to open their gates once again.
The Prime Minister said during a visit to a north London vaccines centre: “I’m very hopeful that it will work, it will all go according to plan and that all kids, all pupils, will be back in schools tomorrow. I’m massively grateful to parents who have put up with so much throughout the pandemic and teachers who have done an amazing job of keeping going.
“I do think we are ready, I think people want to go back, they feel it, they feel the need for it.”
Ofsted chief inspector Ms Spielman, in an interview with Sky News’ Sophy Ridge On Sunday, said remote education had “been a real slog” for many.
She said teachers and parents “need to be alert” to more serious mental health difficulties persisting for a minority of children even after face-to-face learning resumes.
“There is a minority – and let’s hope it is not too large a minority – whose problems have increased and it is really important that we are good at recognising where problems are arising,” she said. “Things like eating disorders, things like self-harm and mental health services are very aware of the kinds of problems that have been increasing and whether they can expect more cases coming through, so everybody needs to be alert to these.”